Judge White served as a substitute Judge for the General District
and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts from 1995 until his
appointment to the Circuit Court bench. He has served terms on the
faculty of the Harry S. Carrico Professionalism programs for both
practicing attorneys and for law students. Judge White is a
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at the George Mason School
of Law where he has taught Virginia Practice and Procedure and
Trial Advocacy. He is an Emeritus Master of the George Mason Inn of
Court. Judge White has participated in the Court’s Model Judiciary
Program since 1996. He was elected Chief Judge by his colleagues
effective June 1, 2015.

Judge Smith served as the Senior Assistant Public Defender in
Fairfax County from July 1, 1987 until November 18, 1990.
Prior to that Judge Smith served on active duty with the United
States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Judge Smith was a
Judge of the Fairfax County General District Court from November
19, 1987 until February 1, 2008. On February 2, 2008, Judge
Smith was sworn in as a Judge of the Fairfax County Circuit
Court. On September 1, 2009, Judge Smith retired as a Colonel
from the United States Army Reserve after thirty years of
service. At his retirement he was the Chief Trial Judge of
the United States Army Reserve. Judge Smith is an Adjunct
Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

Judge Schell was engaged in the private practice of law in
northern Virginia from 1979 to 1991 during which time he served as
a Commissioner in Chancery. From 1991 to 2008 he served as a
Judge in the Fairfax Juvenile and Domestic Relations
District Court. He was Chief Judge of that court
from 1998 to 2002. From 2000 to 2008 Judge Schell presented
the annual appellate law review lecture for all the
Juvenile Court Judges in the state and the Fairfax Family Law
Committee. Previous judicial committees include:
Chairman, Advisory Committee to the Supreme Court, Foster Care and
Adoption; Education; Liaison to the Department of
Juvenile Justice; Previous Fairfax Bar Association Committees:
Legislative, Chairman, Public Relations Committee
and 10th District Grievance Committee.

Judge Brodie has served as President of the Fairfax Bar
Association, a member of the Bar Council and Executive Committee of
the Virginia State Bar, and a member of the Fairfax Law Foundation
Board and the Virginia Women Attorneys Association. She was a
faculty member and lecturer for the Harry S. Carrico
Professionalism Course and a faculty member of the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy at Georgetown University. She was
appointed to the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board, the
Circuit Court Forms Committee, and has participated in the Fairfax
County Circuit Court’s Model Judiciary Program. Prior to her
appointment to the Circuit Court Bench, she retired as a Deputy
County Attorney for Fairfax County. She is currently a member of
the George Mason American Inns of Court.

Judge Nordlund began her legal career as a law clerk to the
Fairfax Circuit Court, before serving as an Assistant
Commonwealth’s Attorney from 1982 to 1986. In private practice for
ten years, she was elected to the General District Court in 1996.

Active in bar association activities throughout her career, she’s
a past Chair of the Criminal Sub-Committee to the Circuit Court and
the General District Court Committee. An avid participant in Moot
Court activities and the George Mason Inns of Court, she is also a
member of several Judicial Associations, serving for nearly ten
years on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of
District Court Judges.

Judge Nordlund has lectured for local civics groups, school
activities, Bar Associations, and the Northern Virginia and Fairfax
County Criminal Justice Academies. She has taught at several
Mandatory Judicial Conferences for District Court Judges, as well
as the Educational Conferences for both Newly-Elected and
Substitute Judges for the Commonwealth.

The son of a South Vietnamese diplomat and an immigrant who found
refuge in the United States, Judge Tran has spent his entire adult
life in the Washington Metropolitan Area and proudly considers
himself a Virginian. He is a product of the Arlington County public
schools and before entering private practice, served as a state and
later federal prosecutor in the City of Alexandria.

He was President of the Asian American Bar Association of
Virginia, a member of the Virginia State Bar Council and on the
faculty of the Harry S. Carrico Professionalism Course.

Prior to joining the Circuit Court, Judge Tran served as a
substitute judge in the General District Courts and Juvenile and
Domestic Relations District Courts throughout Northern Virginia for
five years.

Judge Ortiz began his legal career at the Fairfax County Circuit
Court clerking for the Honorable M. Langhorne Keith. At the
conclusion of his clerkship, Judge Ortiz entered private practice.

Prior to his service at the Court, Judge Ortiz was an active
member in numerous bar related organizations. These include serving
as a member of the Board of Directors of the Fairfax Bar
Association and the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar
Association. He previously served as a Substitute Judge in the
General District Court and Juvenile Domestic Relations District
Court for five years.

Recently, Judge Ortiz was selected to serve on the Virginia Access
to Justice Commission. He is a member of the faculty of the Harry
L. Carrico Professionalism Course.